if you don't already know how i got into wam, long story short...a girl i had a grade school crush on threw my birthday cake in my face on my 8th birthday. been hooked since. over the past few years, i've been able to reconnect with many of my classmates through social media. she was one of them. i've never discussed wam with her as she is married with kids and lives a very "proper" lifestyle. husband's a preacher, yadda yadda yadda...anyhow, just over a month ago i was diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma...cancer, can you believe it? but no worries, if you're not familiar with it, it's VERY curable and we caught it VERY early, so a few months of chemotherapy and all should be just fine. in the meanwhile, the chemo is kicking my ass a little. after my last treatment, i began to lose my hair...to the point where it was annoying me. i haven't kept anything much of a secret and have been posting updates on my facebook page, keeping my friends and family in the loop with my journey. so, when i posted about my hair loss, i got a message from my old friend, the cake thrower. lol. she tells me that she would love to bring her clippers and be the one to shave my head when it came to that. we decided to make a little party of it and a few old school friends met at my house yesterday. she shows up with not only her clippers, but 2 large pizzas and a gift-wrapped box. she handed me the box and it was full of gag gifts...silly hats with fake hair attached, a groucho marx mustache and eyebrow set, stick-on chest hair...things like that. totally my sense of humor. funny thing is, a mutual friend of ours...who DOES know of my wam interests...was there to video document the whole thing for facebook. as i was looking at the contents of the box, the girl with the camera says "i'll bet he was wishing there was a pie in there". that comment kinda got me thinking about the past 32 years since that day when a silly prank changed my life forever. no matter what i've been through...ups and downs...good and bad...serious car accidents, heart attacks and now cancer...wam is always there and a big part of my life. and the girl that started it all was standing in front of me about to shave my head. i just smiled to myself and left it at that. it's just strange to me how things end up happening sometimes. things that make you think, ya know? i will say this...after the head shaving, i took the dog out for a walk and it was snowing. for the first time in my life, i could feel the snowflakes landing on top of my bald head. having had a thick head of hair since birth, it was quite a sensation. so, with that in mind, i can't wait for a chance to get a little messy. it should feel very interesting on my newly shaved melon. ok...i'm done babbling. this was all just on my mind and i felt like typing. if you made it this far, thanks for reading